Under Florida Rule of Family Law Procedure 12.540(b), a party can ask the court to set aside a court order based on: (1) mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect; (2) newly discovered evidence which by due diligence could not have been discovered in time to move for a new trial or rehearing; (3) fraud ( ...
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In a few situations, a judge can cancel or undo an order or judgment in your family law case. This is called a set-aside.
With respect to a stipulated or uncontested judgment, a party may move to set it aside on the basis of mistake, either mutual or unilateral, whether the mistake is of law or fact. Similar to a post-judgment modification, the court is unwilling to grant a motion to set aside unless the criteria set forth above is met.
When a court renders a decision of another court to be invalid, that verdict or decision is set aside; see also annul or vacate. The phrase is often used in the context of appeals, when an appellate court invalidates the judgment of a lower court. For example, in Eckenrode v.
A party attempting to set aside a clerk's default must demonstrate excusable neglect, a meritorious defense, and due diligence in order for the trial court to vacate the default.
If a judge or court sets aside a previous decision or judgment, they state that it does not now have any legal effect, usually because they consider it to have been wrong: The Court of Appeal set aside his conviction. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
In law, a motion to set aside judgment is an application to overturn or set aside a court's judgment, verdict or other final ruling in a case. Such a motion is proposed by a party who is dissatisfied with the result of a case.
Final judgments issued in Florida are the culmination of a lawsuit. They can come at the end of the process from a trial or beforehand through certain procedural mechanisms like default or summary judgment or from an unperformed settlement agreement.